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The UA's branch of Flying Samaritans gives students the opportunity to expand their linguistic and medical skills while also helping underserved communities. The group travels to Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico every month and provides free dental and medical care to people in the area. (Courtesy Flying Samaritans)

UA ‘Flying Samaritans’ make an impact on both sides of the border

Erika Howlett
March 31, 2023
Tucson residents fill up their cars with gas at a QuikTrip gas station in January 2015.

Spring breaking in Mexico or California? Here’s what you need to know

Madison McCormick from El Inde Arizona
March 4, 2022
The front page of the October 27, 1918, Sunday edition of the Bisbee Daily Review illustrates how the 1918 pandemic impacted the town and its residents in many ways. View full page.  (Image courtesy Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers)

Podcast: The Daily Wildcat Presents ‘Of Power and Pandemics’ — a three-part series

Alexandra Pere, Mandy Loader, Yasmin Acosta, and Clara Migoya
February 23, 2022
Arizona's Taylor McQuillin (18) pitching during the NCAA Tournament Regional game at Hillenbrand Stadium on May 17, 2019. Arizona won 5-1 vs. Harvard.

Koutsoyanopulos and Team Italy fall to O’Toole, McQuillin and Team Mexico at Olympic Games

Sean Fagan
July 26, 2021
Arizona's Dejah Mulipola keeps her eye on the ball after hitting an incoming pitch from New Mexico State in the Arizona-New Mexico game at the Hillenbrand Stadium on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Tucson Ariz.

Mulipola and Team USA continue winning streak against O’Toole, McQuillin and Team Mexico at Olympic Games

Sean Fagan
July 25, 2021
Alma Tejeda Padron, a UA Ph.D. student, dedicated herself to her education. Originally a student at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, Tejeda Padron is now a graduate student in the UA's Department of Psychology. 

From Merida to Tucson, UA PhD student Alma Tejeda Padron never wants to stop learning

Sofia Revilak
January 24, 2021
(from left to right) Rubio Goldsmith, Tiera Rainey, Isabel Garcia, and Hannah Throssell speak to students about immigration on Mar. 27 at the University of Arizona. The panel was brought together for the Immigrant Student Resource center's "Forgotten in the Desert" event.

Panel discusses migrant experience across the U.S.-Mexico border

Nagisa Tsukada
March 28, 2019
A group of law enforcement officers line the streets during the migrant caravan. 

Correspondent view: Migrant caravan remains stalled at the border

Sasha Hartzell
November 29, 2018
Waiting to begin the march, UNAM students took turns chanting in Mexico City on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at a demonstration in remembrance of the 1968 student movement in which over a hundred participants were killed in the same area 50 years prior.  The city's street cleaning team looked on,  waiting for the protesters to pass.  

Celebrations, protest at UA partner school in Mexico mark remembrance of ’68 massacre

Sasha Hartzell
October 3, 2018
UA President Dr. Robert Robbins exchanges a gift with Enrique Graue Wiechers, dean of La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, during a trip to Mexico City in July. Robbins said he spoke with Graue Wiechers about a continued partnership with UNAM in a July 26 tweet.

Robbins, faculty make summer trip to Mexico

Randall Eck
August 27, 2017
A sign reading "Visit Nogales" sits high up in the hills of Nogales, Sonora. David Pujol visited this city often during his childhood.

A look at the life of a UA student living near the U.S.-Mexico border

David Pujol
June 28, 2017
Endangered pupfish given a new home

Endangered pupfish given a new home

Marissa Heffernan
March 26, 2017
Entrance set up for "Bellas de Noche" at Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 on Friday, March 24. Tucson Cine Mexico made the admission for this film and other films free for the public.

Tucson Cine Mexico celebrates Mexican culture with film

Melissa Vasquez
March 26, 2017
Tucson Cine Mexico kicks off with filmmaker talk

Tucson Cine Mexico kicks off with filmmaker talk

Kirshana Guy
March 23, 2017
One of many currency exchange locations where Idali Casas works in Nogales, Sonora on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

Global Next Door report encourages study abroad in Mexico

Shaq Davis
December 2, 2016
The value of the peso fell from 5.4 to 5 cents American on Nov. 9 during the election. The peso currently sits at 4.9 cents American.

Trump’s economic plans leave the future unclear for Southern Arizona

Nate Airulla
November 15, 2016
A homeland security patrol boat patrols the Colorado River at Imperial Dam on May 27, 2015 near Yuma, Ariz. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

UA scientists study effects of 2014 ‘pulse flow’ in the Colorado River delta

Ava Garcia
October 29, 2016
Courtesy Tania Martínez Cruz

UA alumna Tania Martínez Cruz wins 2016 National Youth Prize for Academic Achievement

Shaq Davis
October 9, 2016
Taken on the Puerto Peñaso trip on the weekend of April 8-10.

UA students discover marine biology on field trip to Mexico

Varuska Patni
April 20, 2016
Beach of the Dead in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Puerto Vallarta is a destination similar to Rocky Point, with its beaches and party atmosphere.

Fact or fiction: Is Rocky Point still the ultimate spring break destination?

Mariel Bustamante
March 7, 2016
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